A wise move by Yahoo to solicit the community of the recently shuttered Google Answers service

A nice re-cap of Google’s activities over the past year

“If you are one of the six people who haven’t seen it, let me be the first to tell you: This is more toe-curlingly cringe-worthy than anything David Brent did on “The Office.” Even though you’re not the one whipping yourself into a euphoric frenzy over a

New local search service from Ask.com

Fascinating statistic: A survey found 43% of online networkers from the US felt “as strongly” about their web community as they did about their real-world friends.

Lots of RoR links

Remember Freedom Rock?

Your cell phone could save your life

A web based tool for tracking IOU’s between a group of people, popular on college campuses.

Why you might want to avoid the Nike+iPod if you think you are being followed

This would be more useful if the destination sites are clipped down using something like Skweezer

A preview of a recent study by McKinsey & Company

Interview with the creators of the “Ask a Ninja” video podcast

Competitor to SurveyMonkey, WebSurveyor, etc.

Prediction: The Like.com model will fail. People who are interested in this sort of thing will want to know exactly which product the celebrity is wearing, not the 20 products that are an approximate match.

Interview with Jimmy LaValle from The Album Leaf